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- 651: A Fourteenth Century Castle
- ... drinking. The Lord lived at the heart of the castle which was called a keep. If the defenders broke into the castle all the remaining soldiers would go into the keep and fight to the death. Women and children took shelter in the castle while the fighting was going on. If food ran out in the castle, the defenders would throw out anybody who couldn t fight. The attackers would not let them pass, and many of the women and children starved to death. The survivors ate anything they could find, including dogs and rats. The most important preparation for battle was to build hoardings. These were wooden extensions to the wall walk which protected the defenders. Attacking armies ... so he could not hide his guilt. Another cruel punishment was pressing. This was carried out for prisoners who refused to admit or deny their guilt. The prisoner was to be crushed or pressed to death. It was a slow and painful death and many begged visitors to jump on the boards so they would die more quickly. A common way of execution is the gallows. The gallows was where ...
- 652: To His Coy Mistress 3
- To His Coy Mistress " To His Coy Mistress," a poem by Andrew Marvell, generates an understanding of death and paradox through the expressive language of the speaker to the mistress. In the poem, he implements metaphors with hypothetical situations while describing his love for her in a timeless world. He clearly explains that he would love and adore her immensely, then suddenly changes his demeanor by acknowledging that a timeless world does not exist. This poem expresses appreciation for death and paradox through the demeanor, actions and words of the poet. The speaker begins his serenade in the first stanza by stating "Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime ... her body. He is saying to her that he should be the one to win her virginity, not the worms. This is another great paradoxical quote from the poem explaining the gruesome atmospheric details of death in a grave. The speaker explains to the mistress that her beautiful body will soon be the victim of time: "And your quaint honor turn to dust, / And into ashes all my lust" (29- ...
- 653: RedScare
- ... and are considered three of Poe´s greatest pieces. He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's death in Richmond, Virginia on December 8, 1811, his father abandoned the family. John Allen, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, brought Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle ... publishing schemes and romances, until, on October 3, 1849, Joseph W. Walker found him unconscious, (thought to be intoxicated) in the street. Poe remained hospitalized, oscillating between a somatic state and violent delirium, until his death at 5 am on the 7th of 1849. Poe's literature hardly relates to the harsh realities of 19th century life. The dark, chaotic, romantic worlds he created represent an escape from the real, unromantic ... peculiar way. As Madeline dies, she takes her twin with her, because in some way they are connected mentally. In the story, when fantasy suppresses reality and the physical self, it results in Roderick´s death. Madeline's return and actual death reunites the twin natures of their single being, and proves his death as he anticipated in his madness. The narrator is again accused of being a mad man ...
- 654: Death Of A Salesmen
- Willy s Unfulfilled Dreams and Frustrated Hopes Death of a Salesman is about the struggles and failure of Willy Loman. A middle aged, quietly dressed, exhausted traveling salesman. In Death of a Salesman Miller begin the play with Willy Loman, who after an unsuccessful attempt to start a selling trip, has just returned home early. Willy s family had notice him talking to himself about ... depressed, his symptoms would have been recognizable. He would have been able to blend in the crowd and received treatment for his particularly element without feeling like a failure. Although Willy s situation lead to death depression can be treated successful in a number of ways such as Electroconvulsive treatment, or ECT, is widely used by psychiatrists for depressed patients (73 Bugelski). Electroconvulsive therapy may help sever cases improve significantly ...
- 655: Unethical Behavior Role Modeling in Death of a Salesman
- Unethical Behavior Role Modeling in Death of a Salesman Much of a person's personality is derived from his or her parents or the people with whom they live. One's behaviors are a reflection of his or her up bringing ... indicated that as time progresses American ethics have decayed immensely. Parents in America have become more lax with their children, and the strictly enforced code of ethics seems to have diminished. Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, portrays the consequences of the laxity of parents with regards to ethics through the relationship of Willy Loman and his two sons, Biff and Happy. Rather than having played a positive role ... would want done onto them. In a perverse way the Loman boys did practice the golden rule. They did to Willy what he did to others. In conclusion, Willy's relationship with his sons in Death of a Salesman reflected the lack of enforcement of morals and ethics in the American society. Through the character Willy Loman, Arthur Miller demonstrated that it was necessary to teach children a solid code ...
- 656: ‘To Be Or Not To Be’
- ... most revealing moment of Hamlet’s inner character. It is the first moment in which Hamlet is able to meditate upon his problems, after a series of tribulations have been thrown his way. After the death of the King and the swift marriage of Gertrude and Claudius, Hamlet is confronted by the ghost of his father. The ghost tells him that his death was not natural but instead was murder. Hamlet swears revenge. Rather than seeking it instantaneously, Hamlet puts on an ‘antic disposition’ and delays in killing Claudius. Tormented by an inner struggle, Hamlet is left in ... are heirs to them. He believes that pain and sorrow are inevitably imbedded into his and our lives. There is no escaping it unless you decide ‘to die – to sleep.’ At times, Hamlet refers to death as sleep. This metaphor suggests that death remains ambiguous. As sleep, death can be either peaceful and sound or full of nightmares. In the soliloquy Hamlet realizes that in the sleep of death another ...
- 657: Death of a Salesman: Family Hindered By Their Dysfunctional Nature
- Death of a Salesman: Family Hindered By Their Dysfunctional Nature In Death of a Salesman, Miller presents the Lomans a family hindered by their dysfunctional nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loman as the main character of the story, Willy’s lack of praiseworthy traits make him ... because he had neither direction nor individualistic beliefs. He tried to abandon his father’s ideals, but they were implanted so deeply into him that he could not just forget them. However, after Willy’s death, Biff finally realizes "He [Willy] had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong" (111). With this realization of Willy’s fault in character and goals, Biff no longer abides by Willy’s beliefs. When Willy ...
- 658: Death of a Salesman: Summary
- Death of a Salesman: Summary Plot: 1. The events in this story are arranged out of order or by use of flashbacks. 2. The author most likely chose this style of writing to show reflection on ... even lie. Biff goes to jail and the family lies and tells Willy that he is out west looking for work on a farm. All of these lies pile up and eventually cause Willy's death at the end when he finds them out and commits suicide. Style Biff: He walked away. I saw him for one minute. I got so mad I could've torn the walls down! How the ... home. He used symbolism and imagery of Linda Loman sitting in a dark room mending her stocking while Willy remembers giving the other woman a box of new stockings. Willy's only way out is death. 4. It is the story of a family struggling to make the best out of life and not getting anywhere. The way the events are arranged the whole story is not revealed until the ...
- 659: Death Of A Salesman
- The definition given (that the audience needs to have mixed feelings about the destruction of a human being for a play to be a tragedy) means that to establish Death of A Salesman as a tragedy, we must be able to give evidence that not only is the audience made to feel sadness at Willy Loman s demise, but also that they are made to ... that the audience is also left to feel that Willy deserves all of the punishment which fate hands him throughout, and especially towards the end, of the play. It is obvious right the way through Death of A Salesman that Willy Loman s life is bad, and that it is getting worse, despite Willy s dreams and aspirations. His first major problem is with his job. From the very first scene ... take Willy s suicide as a redeeming feature, meaning that they still, for the most part, have conflicting emotions about him by the end of the play. This discussion shows that, using the definition given, Death of A Salesman can be described as a tragedy. However I think that it could be said to be more centralised on creating conflicting emotions in general rather than just creating conflicting emotions about ...
- 660: Death of a Salesman: Symbols
- Death of a Salesman: Symbols Many symbols are incorporated into the play "Death of a Sales man" and they in turn relate to both character and theme. The hose, tape recorder and the seeds are some of these symbols. The hose in Miller's drama directly relates to ... in his attempt to seek reconciliation and forgiveness. Thus the hose, tape record er and the seeds are all symbolic of Willy's dreams gone sour, and his inability to live in the present. His death is inevitable and is mirrored by his life.
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